Door-fastener.



Patented July l5. I902.

v No. 704,6l9. G. w. CRAMEB. DOOR FASTENER.

(Application filed Nov. 1() 1900.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. CRAMER, OF TRIVOLI, ILLINOIS.

DOOR-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 704,619, dated July 15,1902.

Application filed November 10, 1900. Serial No. 36,014. (No model.)

which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

This invention relates to an improvement in door-fasteners. It hasforits obj ectto provide a simple and cheap device of this character tobe used on doors or blinds, a further object being to provide a moreconvenient fastener than those in existence, all of which will bepointed out in the claim.

In the drawings forming a part of this application, Figure 1 is asectional plan view of a door and the wall of the building on which itis hinged. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the fastener and a portion ofthe door, much enlarged. Fig. 3 isa sectional view of a door and thecatch, showing the latter reversed from the position shown in the otherfigures.

In the several figures, A is the door. B represents the buildingto whichthe said door is hinged.

C, Fig. 1, indicates the door-jamb.

The fastener is indicatedby D and is composed of a casting or stamping,which is pivoted at about the middle of its length on a pin E, eithercast with or suitably secured to a plate F, secured near the edge of thedoorin about the position shown in Fig. 2. The fastener is provided atone end with a hook G and at the other with a hook H. The hook G extendsthrough a suitable slot in the door, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and isadapted to engage a loop orstaple g on the building when the door isopened and thrown back, while the latter engages a staple or keeper Iton the jamb O. A spring I, having two arms or projections and a loopformed by one or two turns,is slipped upon the pin E and rests upon thefastener D with one of the said arms bearing against the plate F, whilethe other passes through a suitable opening in the fastener at the baseof the hook H. The said plate F is cut down from its top, leaving aslot,and the metal tongue formed thereby is turned down at right angles tothe body of the plate to form a horizontal lug J, upon which thefastener is adapted to lie, and the extremities ff of the plate are bentover at right angles to form hooks. These latter members prevent thespring I from leaving its position on the pin E. In Fig. 2 thehookfwillprevent the arm of the spring beneath it from moving upward,while in-Fig. 3 the hook f when the spring is reversed holds the otherarm down. The ac tion of the spring is to force the hooks in such adirection as to bring them into position to I engage the keepers g andh. To reverse the position of the fasteners, the spring is lifted fromthe pin E' and then the fastener, which is turned over and replaced uponthe pin. The spring is placed upon the pin,.but swung so that theextremity, which passes through the fastener at the base of the hook Hin Fig. 2, now bears against the plate F beneath the projection f, as inFig. 3, and carries the opposite arm of the spring,which in Fig. 2iisbeneath the hook f, to the base of the hook H of the fastener, where itis inserted in the opening formerly occupied by the opposite end of thespring. By this arrangement the action of the'spring is reversed tocorrespond with the reversed portion of the fastener, as will be clearlyunderstood. The pin E is merely passed through the lug J and bent at itslower extremity and passes through a hole in the plate F, where it isriveted. However, other means may be substituted, if desired, and theform of the plate F may be varied tosuit the desire of the user; A lug Don the fastener limits the movement of that member and engages the plateF, as shown in Fig. 2.

I am aware that my form of double-hooked fastener is not entirely new;but the particular construction of my entire device is new and is ofespecial advantage, because of the ease with which it can be reversed onright or left hand doors, and therefore In a fastener for doors, asupporting-plate for the fastener, the sameadapted for attachment to adoor, a horizontal lugJ formed therewith and extending at right anglesaway from the said plate, a vertical pin E entered through said 111g andbent at its lower end and passed through the plate F and there fastened,the fastener D supported on the said pin E, the

hooks Gand H at its ends each extending in a direction opposite to theother, the spring I coiled around the pin E but removable therefrom andreversible thereon, one end of such spring attached to the fastener, theother adapted to bear against the plate F and arranged whereby the hooksG and H are normally in position to engage the locking means therefor, astop D on the fastener to limit the movement of the latter member andadapted to rest against the plate F, and the overhanging extremities ffof the latter for holding In testimony whereof I affix my signature inpresence of two witnesses.

GEORGE W. CRAMER.

Witnesses:

B. L. BRODE, A. KEITHLEY.

